Mountain Fulvetta

Alcippe peracensis

The mountain fulvetta is a 14 to 15.5 cm long species of bird in the Old World babbler family. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Mountain Fulvetta, Lâm Đồng, Vietnam  Alcippe peracensis,Asia,Geotagged,Lâm Đồng,Mountain fulvetta,Spring,Vietnam,Vietnam 2025

Appearance

Both have a warm brown back and tail, whitish underparts, a grey face and a slate grey crown bordered below with a black line, but black-browed has brown flanks and a weaker white eyering.
Mountain fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis) Bukit Fraser, Malaysia. Jul 22, 2015. Alcippe peracensis,Geotagged,Malaysia,Mountain fulvetta,Summer

Naming

The black-browed fulvetta, "Alcippe grotei", is sometimes considered to be conspecific with mountain fulvetta, but the two forms differ in morphology and vocalisations, and are separated altitudinally. Black-browed fulvetta occurs primarily below 400 m, and mountain fulvetta above 900 m.

Behavior

Mountain has a "yi-yuii-uwee-uwee" song, whereas black-browed's is "yu-chi-chiwi-chuwoo, yu-uwit-ii-uwoo".

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyPellorneidae
GenusAlcippe
SpeciesA. peracensis
Photographed in
Malaysia
Vietnam